Haiwang Yuan

Prof. Yuan has been a member of the Department of Library Public Services faculty since 1997. A Fulbright student, he received his M.A. (American History) and M.L.S. from Indiana University at Bloomington. He is Professor and Web Site & Virtual Library Coordinator of the University Libraries. He is leader of the Libraries' Web Site Team and Co-editor of its newsletter Collections & Connections. He is a member of the Council of Library Department Heads. He also serves as a member of Board of Directors of the Chinese American Librarians Association.

Winner of the 1999 Kentucky Library Award, Prof. Yuan is author of Princess peacock: Tales from the Other Peoples of China (Libraries Unlimited 2008), The Magic Lotus Lantern and Other Tales from the Han Chinese (Libraries Unlimited 2006), and Virtual Libraries' Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Huayi, Beijing 2002). He is co-author of Celebrate Chinese New Year, Holiday Around the World Series (National Geographic, 2008). He is a member of the Editorial Board for and a contributor to the Berkshire Encyclopedia of China (Berkshire, 2008). He also contributed to Theories and Practices of American Libraries in the Twenty-First Century (2007), he Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture (Routlege 2004) and. He has authored and co-authored over two dozen articles published in College & Research Library, Library Administration and Management, Journal of Research in International Education, Internet Librarian, Against the Grain, Technical Services Quarterly, Journal of National Library of China, LIRT News and Kentucky Libraries. He is currently editing a two-volume Chinese Peoples: Encyclopedia of Chinese Ethnic Groups (Greenwood Press 2008). Yuan has been selected for the 2009 edition of Who's Who in America.

Before coming to the U.S., Haiwang Yuan was a lecturer of English at Nankai University in Tianjin, China, where he also taught foreign students Chinese at summer schools. He worked as a media specialist and taught Chinese at All Saint's Academy in Winter Haven, Florida between 1995 and 97 before joining Western. He has been teaching Chinese at the Summer Camp for Academically Talented Middle School Students (SCATS) at Western since 2004. He is a certified reader for the College Board's AP Chinese Scoring program. For more of his credentials, please visit his bio page or his SelectedWorks page.